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Former US President Barack Obama speaks during the funeral of late Representative and Civil Rights leader John Lewis(D-GA) at the State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia on July 30, 2020. - Lewis, a 17-term Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from the southern state of Georgia, died of pancreatic cancer on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Alyssa Pointer / POOL / AFP)

Obama joins Democrats’ lurch to the left

The obsequies at John Lewis’s funeral last week provided a fascinating glimpse of the changes in US politics in recent years.

Gerard Baker

commentaryThe Times

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 26, 2020 Security personnel stand in a cloud of tear gas in Portland, Oregon early July 26, 2020, as protests continue across the United States following the death in Minneapolis of unarmed African-American George Floyd. - Federal forces deployed in the US city of Portland, rocked by weeks of clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement, will start pulling out of the city on July 30, 2020, the state governor announced.

US mayors back savage revolutionaries

In their desperation to defeat Donald Trump, Democratic officials have sided with violent protesters against their own police.

Gerard Baker

CommentaryThe Times

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press during the renewed briefing of the Coronavirus Task Force in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2020. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Don’t write off Trump’s re-election chances

Donald Trump is trailing in the polls but those polled skew toward the Democrats who are less likely to vote than Republicans.

Gerard Baker

CommentaryThe Wall Street Journal

PROVO, UT - JULY 01: People supporting the Black Lives Matter movement protest on the steps of the Old Utah County Court House on July 1, 2020 in Provo, Utah. This is the first protest since Monday evening when a 60-year-old SUV driver was shot. George Frey/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

The news media becomes fluent in Newspeak

George Orwell’s observation that language shapes thought holds true for COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.

Gerard Baker

CommentaryThe Wall Street Journal

US President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable with stakeholders positively impacted by law enforcement, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 13, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)

Democracy dies in darkness, but don’t blame Trump

Donald Trump’s enemies warned there would be an all-out assault on freedom of speech when he was elected US President. Then they launched one.

Gerard Baker

WORLD COMMENTARYThe Wall Street Journal

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - JULY 04: Demonstrators carry chains during the Black 4th protest in downtown on July 4, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A number of protest demonstrations occurred around the Twin Cities on Independence Day which were critical of the annual American celebration. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Elites betray the people in casting US as the evil empire

The US hasn’t passed from great to evil in 20 years. But elites have failed and betrayed the American people.

Gerard Baker

commentaryThe Times

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 23, 2020 people walk at the boardwalk in Venice Beach during the first day of the Memorial Day holiday weekend amid the novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic in California. - Los Angeles beaches will be closed for the July 4 holiday weekend, officials said, as a surge took the county past 100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on June 29, 2020. (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP)

New US lockdowns a gross over-reaction

A rise in Covid-19 infections is no reason to panic — it may even prove that the virus is less deadly than we feared.

Gerard Baker

US riotsThe Times

TOPSHOT - A protester kneels in front of military police near the White House to protest the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis, on June 3, 2020 in Washington, DC. - Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on the neck of George Floyd who later died, will now be charged with second-degree murder, and his three colleagues will face charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder, court documents revealed Wednesday. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Black lives better as anger grows

Unfulfilled expectations and the culture war between left and right over ‘systemic racism’ explain the George Floyd backlash

Gerard Baker

CommentaryThe Times

Protesters demonstrate over the death of George Floyd near the White House on June 3, 2020, in Washington, DC. - The United States has erupted into days and nights of protests, violence, and looting, following the death of George Floyd after he was detained and held down by a knee to his neck, dying shortly after. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)

Left fails black voters and blames others

The mayors of cities such as Minneapolis have had chances to correct the vast inequalities faced by African-Americans.

Gerard Baker

commentaryThe Times

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - MAY 27: President Donald Trump participates in a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center on May 27, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were scheduled to be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States, but the launch was postponed due to bad weather. Saul Martinez/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Twitter caves into left as anti-Trump bias exposed

Under pressure from liberal critics, Twitter put a clamp on President Trump and free speech, proving it’s just as left-leaning as the bulk of the media.

Gerard Baker

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